Hello. My name is Adam and I am the new AMV liason (read contest coordinator) for the upcoming Ohayocon convention in January. I am creating this thread is to announce that we are now accepting entries for Ohayocon 2011's AMV contest up until Dec 19th, 2010. For a list of contest rules please go here. E-mailed entries are accepted if you don't want to pay for shipping costs. I do ask that you use one of the address in the rules (I know that there are two addresses, please use the g-mail address as that is the one that I frequently check). You do not have to be present to recieve your award, if you so happen to win something. If you have any questions you are welcome to ask. Thank you.

I am replying to my own post (assuming that I don't commit any fellony here) to update everyone that if you are interested in entering in Ohayocon's AMV contest, please do so by the 19th of December. I am specifically looking for AMVs in the comedy category as there is currently a shortage. Again, any questions please feel free to ask.

As promised I have the list of the videos that will compete in the 2011 Ohayocon AMV contest. The list below will show, first, the video's title, then the editor's name or studio, and finally, the category assigned by said editor. If you have entered and sent in your video, but do not see it on this list, it will still be shown at an overflow showing but will not qualify for this contest. I should be able to get all of the videos shown even at the overflow showing, but because of time restraints, there is a possibility that a couple may not get shown. In which case you will recieve a personal e-mail from me.

As of today Jan 8th, 2011, this list is offically final and will not change. In other words, this is the list that will be shown at Ohayocon and no changes will be made. So with that said, here is the list:

I think it said on their rules page that they were only going to award the 3 favorites.

I just read on their forum that the subtitles on our video (You Remain) and the Sonnet 71 video were cut off. Presumably everyone with the same aspect ration had the tops & bottoms of their videos cut off....

Makes me sad, I never expected to place, but I at least wanted to not place with a video comprehensible to the audience.

I just wanna know possibly how my video ("I'm In a Cup") did overall.There were supposed to be like groups of four videos and the fans would vote for their favorite within that group.The overall winners were decided by a general vote among the group winners.Kinda convoluted system but I hope it changes next year.

First, I want to applogize for not getting back to everyone sooner. The afternath of Ohayocon for me was the following: I had a situation with my finances that needed to be delt with, a situation with contest that was brought to my attention after the fact, and finally I have been battling flu like symptoms, which I am still battling as of this writing.

HalOfBorg and Deuce - This year we did the contest based on what the audience thought was the top three videos of the entire contest. One of the reasons for this is that I got a lot of videos of a couple of categories and not enough of a couple of others. Among the several things I am taking a look at is changing the category names to see if that evens things out. I got a great post about that on Ohayocon.org's forums.

Deuce - You and I have talked about the system used for this past contest before, via personal e-mail, and rest assured your input is greatly appriciated. I do plan on making changes to the system and hopefully it is for the better. As for your video, I believe it did place either 5th or 6th. Overall it was well received.

Warlike Swans - Your subtitle was croped but only a little at the bottom. Still it was enough that I did get some complaint about that. I put the contest on a burnt DVD and I think the DVD player at the convention stretched the video out a little too much. I was unable to get it fixed and for that, I applogize to you for not giving your AMV proper justice. The subtitle issue is one of my main topics during my personal review. I hope you still consider sending your future AMV's to Ohayocon.

For everyone else, I will try to stop by and check your feedback on this forum. I can also be reached on my e-mail address:amv2011.ohaycon@gmail.com or stop by the Ohayocon.org forums under the programming section.

Warlike Swans wrote:I think it said on their rules page that they were only going to award the 3 favorites.

I just read on their forum that the subtitles on our video (You Remain) and the Sonnet 71 video were cut off. Presumably everyone with the same aspect ration had the tops & bottoms of their videos cut off....

Makes me sad, I never expected to place, but I at least wanted to not place with a video comprehensible to the audience.

In the future, you may want to look into the 'Title Safe Area' when you are putting subtitles into a video destined for a convention. Especially if they are going to use a DVD to display the videos. Even some graphics cards also 'overscan' and in the process can cut off subtitles that were put in a video intended to be viewed on a computer screen that doesn't overscan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area